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Starred review in Publishers Weekly for The Marathon Conspiracy

The Marathon Conspiracy, fourth book in the series, has just received its first review, and it's a delight. This just in from Publishers Weekly...

The future of democracy itself is on the line in Corby’s outstanding fourth historical set in ancient Greece (after 2013’s Sacred Games).

On the eve of elections in Athens, the city’s wise man, Pericles, enlists his inquiry agent, Nicolaos, to deal with a matter that could undermine the elections. In a cave outside Athens, two schoolgirls have discovered a skeleton that may belong to the tyrant Hippias, who defected to the Persians after his ouster, a move that led to the Battle of Marathon.

With the remains are notes, apparently written by the dictator, which may identify still-living traitors who worked with him even after his defection. One of the schoolgirls was killed shortly afterward, and the other has vanished. The multiple puzzles prove a formidable challenge for Nicolaos and his feisty fiancée, Diotima.

Everything works in this installment—the detective business, the action sequences, the plot twists, and the further development of the series lead.

The abovementioned saxo.com have very interesting listing for a paperback edition of The Pericles Commission - see here: http://www.saxo.com/dk/the-pericles-commission_gary-corby_paperback_9781616952518

Strange cover, isn't it?

Publisher is supposed to be Random House Inc.

If I'm not mistaken, you have had some changes with your publishers. Is this something to do with that? I know that Saxo gets major part of their database from booksinprint.com; could it be that they have an old entry?

The Strange Case of the Strange Cover... that cover never existed! The first I saw of it was when it suddenly appeared online. It was accidentally released by a marketing person at Minotaur before even The Pericles Commission had been printed. It's a 7 year old mistake that won't go away.

There are a couple of wrong covers like that. Thanks for pointing it out, because it's worth a blog post. Stay tuned.

Publishers...welcome to the convoluted world of book rights. My first publisher was Minotaur, which is an imprint of Macmillan. So those are the first two names you'll see for US editions. Then Penguin bought Australia/New Zealand rights. I cherished my editor at Minotaur, but the same could not be said for their marketing department. That prompted a move to the hyper-successful Soho Press. Soho has a distribution deal with Random House. So you'll see current books listed as Soho/Random.

Meanwhile, by complete coincidence Penguin merged with Random, thus folding almost everything back into one source. Throughout all this the audio books were published by a sixth organization: Dreamscape.

I appear on the Minotaur, Macmillan, Penguin, Dreamscape, Random and Soho web sites.

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